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OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
ANTI-TOXIN TO COMBAT ERYSIPELAS,
MANY CURES NOTED.
One of the diseases most, feared
in 23 years 16,277
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER - 5,
THE PROBLEM OF OLD AGE.
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CRITICISMS OF VORONOFF OPERATION.
EFFECT NOT PERMANENT.
Budapest: Professor Voronoit's
con-
man is being brought under lecture during the Zoological, Con- control gradually through the Ingress has aroused-so-much-
troversy that the "Pesti Hirlap" vestigations of modern medleine.
COALS of has asked Professor Boris Soko- erysipelas have been seen in the loff, Director of the Cancer-Re- York.earch Institutes in Pragtio and Bellevue Hospital, New
of Nice, to state his oplalon as to the During that time all sorts methods of treatment were used, permanent value of the "Voronoff many of them apparently of great operation." service, but few of them actually proved to be of value in shorten- ing the duration of the disease.
An anti-toxin has been prepared which seems to have remarkable effects in controlling the discasc. in a recent series of 131 cases, the length of stay of patients in the hospital treated by this method was reduced more than 53 per cent over the length of stay. of patients treated by other methods.
In Professor. Voronail's opinion old age is the consequence of the exhaustion of the glands, but if this is the ease, says Professor Sokoloff, why is the rejuvenation brought about by the transplanta- tion of glands only of temporary duration? Some scientists be- lieve that this is due to Professor Inadequate surgical
Bre
Cutting the Toll Following the discovery that the streptococcus associated with scar- let Tover elaborated toxin and that an anti-toxin could be pre- pared against this poison, some discoveries were made relating to Veronofl's the streptococcus that causes ery-technique. The biologists
the operation, sceptical about sipelas.
which has been attempted by others before: Professor Voronoi, as they declare that the opera lon can only be successful when the gland is taken from a creature of the same species as that into which it will be transplanted. Thus it has been proved that the transplantation of a gland from.a white mouse into a grey mouse is. completely successful, whereas the transplantation of a mouse's gland into a rat is not. When the gland is transplanted from a different species the law of the blood comes into force and the alien gland be comes absorbed away in time: and this is what has gener- ally occurred in the operations of Professor Voronoff. A positive success can only be hoped for when glands are transplanted from one human being to another. The biologists consider that Pro- fessor Voronoil's logic is at fault in that he disregards this point.
Eighty-five and six-tenths per cent of cases of "erysipelas of the face were eared in from three to seven days.
In a series of 92 cases of ery sipelas of the face treated without the anti-toxin during the same period in 1926 only 36 per cent were cured in from two to seven days; about 50 per cent required from eight to 18 days."
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Professor Little, the American scientist, declares that the glands of the body, form a chain, each Jink of which reacts on another, so that the transplantation of one' gland (as in the Voronoff opera- tion) ennrot permanently prevent the ageing of the whole organism.
In cases of erysipelas affecting the body, 60 per cent were cured in from three to seven days, 30 per cent in from sight to 16 days, with mortality of 10 per cent; 1 15" cases of erysipelas of the hody treated without anti-toxin during the corresponding period of 1926, 46.6 por cent were cured in from seven to 15 days and 13.3 in from 25 to 58 days. per cent the mortality being 40 per cent,
Unquestionably, therefore, the anti-oxin treatment of erysipelas is a great advance for the control of this dianase. Unfortunately, the the study of old age, has stated .is first use of the anti-toxin has not been that arterio-schlerosis shown to confer immunity to ery-caused by the chalking of the sipelas, but its effects in shorten-inner seerelion glands which fol- disease lows chronic intestinal poisoning. ling the duration of the
and in saving life constitute an- The greater part of civilised man-
ther of the striking discoveries of modern medicine for human health and safety.
The late Professor Metschnikaif, whose last years were given up to
kind is suffering from abnormal fermentation of the intestines caused by coli bacteria. After Professor many experiments The Pope has granted Cardinal Metschnikoff discovered that the Billot's petition fequesting permis bacillus obtained from sour milk sion to resign his cardinalship on was the most effective in restrain- account of pld age and his desireing this bacillus, but that sour to retire into private life "in order milk alone produced little result,
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absorbed with bananas or potatoes was successful in ridding the in-. testines of the bacillus, Ameri- can scientists are working on the lines laid down by Professor Metschnikoff, as the problem of old age is now understood to be intimately connected with the poisoning from chalked organs.
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The familiar autumn gatherings of starlings over London's roofs of an evening already are being noticed. In the country the flocks are growing larger daily,, and- át Merton, North Devon, are a plague against which the use of gas bombs has been suggested, says a Home paper of mail week.
The invasion by the birds of Lord Clinton's estate at Merton and their destruction. of young lurch trees were described in the come press last autumn. They over the sky in black clouds" to their night quarters in an 8-acre plantation which, in consequence of their presence in such vast num- bcrs, has been, said to look as though an attempt had been made to burn it,
The plague has been discussed by Torrington, Devon... Farmers' Union. It was declared that apart from ruining the young trees, the birds contaminate the ground and spread the disease of coccidiosis, which affects poultry, rabbits, and sheep.
It was a local poultry breeder on a large scale, Mr. T. C. Buckland, who advocated the used of gas bombs. A similarly drastic re- medy was tried a few years ago by the clerk to the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. when the great flock of starlings in the hospital square kept the patiente awake with their evening clamour.
He had some smoke rockets, such as are used for drain-testing, fixed beneath the trees, and in the even- ing, when the birds had asserabled above, the rockets were fired. This was successful, and the starl linge migrated to the Temple Gar dena,
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